Bed-rail fastening



DARRELL Dyna, or omesso, ILLINOIS, assrenon fro THE sans contraint?, or cnrcaeo, mentors, A, oo eronaron or iLLINoIs.

Ben-RAIL FASTENING.

Application filed May 5,

Y 1o all w hom t may concern.'

ide it known that l. llinnnnn li. .Di/Kr citizen of the United itates, r iding at fago, in the county of Cook and imitate of Illinois7 have invented certain new and useful improvements in Bed-Rail FasteninggijsS of which the followingi` is a specification.

This invention relates generally to an attachment for thc end of a bed rail, by ineans of which it inay be secured to a bedstcad and although particularly designed and intended for use and iconi'icction with nietal bed rails and for attachment to a wooden corner post, it may have a more p feneral use wherever applicable. The princiiiial object nl" the invention is to provide a new and improved fastening of this kind, by means of which a bed rail may be attached to the bedstead and. may bc reversible. end for end, or may be inverted or used interclningeably with other `rails of the same kind.

Another object of the invention is to pro vide a fastening` of this kind in which the inetal rail is so disposed with respect to the fastening proper that the saine .sized springs or inattressesupports which are used with a wooden bed-rail can be used with the metal bed-rail without danger of disbnlodgnient therefrom.

In the accompanying drawing, Fig'. l is a perspective of the fastener constructed in accordance with the principles of this invention; Fig'. 2 is a plan view of the same; and Fig. 3 is a side view illustrating a fas tener of this kind applied ltothe bed post having a single supporting pininstead of two of them as shown in Fig. l.

T his invention consists generally in a bedrail of angle iron, the ends of which are each provided with an attachment for connecting it to the bed ycorner post.` lt is sonic tiines desirable to substitute ainetal bed-rail for the wooden side rails which were formerly used, and in such cases it is found that the horizontal extending web of an angle-iron rail is not of sufficient width to support the springs or mattress-support which has been formerly used; in other words7 such metal rails would be spaced apart a greater distance so that therewould be danger of the springs or mattress-support becoming dislodged therefrom. The present invention is therefore designe-d and intended to overcome this difhcultv by providing an offset in the supportingplate Spcccaton of Letters Patent.

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1919. Serial No. 294,879.

which is attached to the bed-rail, to space the rail proper further inwardly with respect to the post to which it isfattached `so"`tl1at the saine spring' orinattrees-support which was used with the bed and wooden side rails 'can be used with metal side rails.

Referring now more particularly to the drawinga the numeral l `designates generally a wooden bed-post having a slot Q in one face thereof, and a pair of spaced supporting pins fl which extend transversely across the slot 2 in the well known manner.

il. bed,-1'ai.l 4. in the forni of an angle-iron, has an upright web 5 and a horizontally7 extending web G. Attached to each end of the side bar by means of rivets 7 is a plate 8, the attached portion of which is parallel with the upright web 5 of the rail.'L This plate has an angular offset E), spacingit from the extremity of the rail.y but it is bent at l0 to extend transversely of the rail at the end thereof. lhetransversel y 'entending` portion has bearing plates ll above and beli'iw the angle bar. each of which is provided. with a perforation 12 for the insertion of "a fastening` screw lill which may be inserted therethrough and into corner-post l. for securing the `ail lixedly in position thereon. Between the bearing` parts lll., this plate S is formed with a pair of projectii'ig tongues or T-heads la. the inner sides of which are slightly converging. and these tiro heads are bent at right angles to the bearingparts ll, and substantially parallel with the upright web 5 of the side bar7 but slightly outside of the web so that the angle bar i is offset inwardly.

Sonie bed-posts have only single supportingpin 16, as shown in Fig. f5, and in this case the present double headed fastener can be applied equally as well as when there are two supporting pins. The rails are reversible and interchangeable in both'cases.

In operation it is necessary only to insert the heads lil within the slot 2, and to hook the edges l5 over the pins 8, whereupon the pins will ride up upon the `inclined edges when a weight is applied to the rail, or it is pressed down, and thereafter a screw 13 can be inserted through each of the holes l2 into the bed-post and out of line with slot 2 for firmly attaching' the rail in position. It will be observed fiiirtherinore. that the bent portion l? connecting the rail-heads 14, is also adapted to enter the slot 2, so as to limit lateral movement of the rail, and bearing portions ll are usually of sufficient extent to entirely cover theends of the slot 2, to

cal web of the rail, bent outwardly therefrom and then bent inwardly at right ani gles to the end of the rail with bearing ,por-

tions above and below the rail, and with an intermediate portion bent at right angles to the bearing parts and including attaching means disposed on the same side of the vertical web section as that to which the bearing plate is attached for correspondingly offsetting the horizontal web inwardly.

2. In a bed rail fastener, an attaching l plate securable to a bed rail with fastening hooks projecting therefrom parallel to the securing portion and with an intermediate offset which spaces the hooks outside of rail to which it is attached, andwith transverse bearing plates at right angles to the hooks above and below them, with a perforation in each of the bearing plates oii'set laterally with respect to the hooks so that they will be out of line with the slot in which the hooks are attachable.

3. The combination with a vertically slotted corner post having a transverse supporting pin therein, of an angle iron bed rail havingavertical and a horizontal web, an attaching plate secured to the outside of the vertical web having an angular offset and then bent transversely at the end of theirail with'bearing portions above and below the rail each provided with a perforation, and with the intermediate portion between the bearing portions rbent at right angles thereto and formed with T-headed hooks which are parallel with and spaced outside of the vertical web of the rail to which the fastener is attached, the hooks and their connecting portion being adapted to enter the slot of the rail when the supporting pin is' engaged to limit the lateraly movement of the rail .in the slot, the hooks being out of line with the perforations in the bearing portion, `and fastening screws insertible through the' said perforations into the bed post for securing the bed rail thereto. f

4, In a bed rail fastener', an angle iron bed rail having a vertical and a horizontal web, and an attaching plate secured to the vertical web of the rail, bent outwardly therefrom and then inwardly at right angles to the end of the rail with an intermediate portion` tical web, and an attachment at the end of:l i

the rail consisting of a plate secured to the vertical web and bent outwardly therefrom7 and then bent inwardly at right angles at the end of the rail with an intermediate headed portion whichis also bent at right angles so that it extends parallel with the vertical web of the rail disposed on the same side of the vertical web section as that to which the plate is attached, so that the horizontal web of the rail will be correspondingly offset from the slot in the post depending upon whether the attaching head is inserted in regular or inverted position.

G. In av bed rail fastener, a bed rail, an attaching plate secured vertically to one side of the rail, bent outwardly therefrom and then inwardly at right angles at the end of the rail and with an intermediate headed portion which is also bent at right anglesintermediate headed portion which extends parallel with the attached portion of the plate and in advance of the endl of a rail. and adapted for insertion and engagement with a cross pin in the slot of a bed post supporting member,f the angular portion AofV the plate osettin a bed rail in a direction oppositely there rom.

f DARRELL F. DYKE. 

